I killed it? , so i'm the single culprit that has demolished and given IDM a bad name, eh? Thanks...

...and what is your problem with me anyway? This is the second time (that i've noticed) you've said something about me personally. Just curious, you know.

all i can say is that Mr. Kirk has only supplemented my knowledge and appreciation of IDM. even music as a whole (not to boast you up or anything my friend). ;D

i just thought of this as i was listening to the Lego Feet track on the Skampler. i think it's Leaves on the Line.

it must be richard h. kirk's mullet that is pissing people off!

Mullets are never good.

come on, you gotta love Billy Ray Cyrus.

Wel, of course Billy Ray Cyrus is an exception!

yeah, don't break his achey breaky heart.

Nothing personal Equinox. No boeuf. A better way to say it would be: Idm committed suicide... thanks to its approach.

I was mulling over this yesterday evening, thanks to the grace period allowed me by an unexpected layoff, and I came to the conclusion that yes - Idm is dead. And yes - Idm was only ever really a curiosity... which is why people still try to validate it by pushing it forward. This means that the actual value of Idm is pretty low (somewhere between elevator muZAK and Dan Gibson.) We need to face this so that we dont become deluded into believing that Idm is important... or that Idm artists are creative musicians, when in reality they appear to be musically disinclined, self-impressed, appropriative assholes.

I will always have the classics to appreciate (Orb, Fsol, Eno, Rich, Inoue, Gas, etc)... but they are important to me because they HAVE a context for me: they broke ground, were original, and never put up the false front of a Jelineck. They represented all of the potential in the early days that has been exploited and is now defunct. More importantly, they had context and originality going for them. I dont think that the musical value was ever very high but at least back then they were fresh.

You obsessed with IDM